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Mar. 6, 2014

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JC Reindl
Gannett Michigan

Dominic Cristini, former owner of Detroit's old Packard Plant, has threatened to hold up redevelopment efforts for the desolate site unless new owner Fernando Palazuelo pays him money for a piece of the land that Cristini says he still technically owns.

As well, Cristini, 54, claims Wayne County botched the foreclosure of the plant site last year and believes he could make a claim of ownership over most of the parcels that make up the 40-acre site. In a face-to-face meeting last week, Cristini told Palazuelo that for a price he would drop his claims.